JK Rowling receives Twitter abuse from SNP supporters

Publish date: 2024-09-01

JK Rowling knows exactly how to handle Twitter trolls.

The Harry Potter author was sent a slew of angry messages on Twitter from Scottish National Party supporters (SNP), following the election result last week. Rowling is famously against Scottish independence and made her views well-known during the referendum last year.

Despite the huge success of the SNP in the election, some of the party's supporters still targeted Rowling - and her responses were amazing.

To one furious tweeter (who has since been suspended from the social media platform), she wrote this:

And to suggestions that her books should be ceremoniously burnt, she tweeted the following:

After being told by some users that she should leave Scotland for her apparently Judas-like political views, she was sent a series of invites from people from all over the world, asking her to move to their countries. Rowling retweeted their messages.

The sweet messages understandably made her feel emotional:

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